Interpreting Fragments

"How can you gather together the thousand fragments of each person?" -- George Seferis

In archeology, most often only fragments are found. And from these fragments, pictures are formed from the imagination of the beholder.  The stories unfold...how was the ancient vase used? What did it look like? Who exactly was depicted in the mosaic? How did s/he...the whole population live, eat, breath, die? All is retold through shards and fragments.

But man is not a god. The images created are only good guesses, half truths, imaginary wanderings and our own, projected desires.

And isn't this also how we view and judge other people? Never do our eyes gaze upon more than just a handful of fragments of another person. Yet, our minds trick ourselves into thinking that we see a full image. Because we color in the missing pieces, connect lines in ways that our own limited minds have been trained to do so. We then judge the 'persons' we create, and weigh them on our own scales of good and bad, success and failure, emulation and repulsion.

We allow ourselves to be deceived...just like how our eyes (for thousands of years) have deceived us to believe that the moon is much larger when it's closer to the horizon.